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Recently I was invited invited to Currumbin Wildlife Sanctuary for Koala Friends Day by my good friend Chloe. Koala Friends Day is a day where Koala experts give talks about koalas their threats and how the Gold Coast City Council are trying to help them. One of the experts there was Dr John who is a vet that use to work at Australia Zoo Animal Hospital and worked closely with Steve Irwin. Koalas are a vulnerable species and are under great threat from Cats, Dogs, Cars, Retro virus, chlamidia, and habitat destruction from urban development in and around koala habitat. We also got to go in the koala enclosure and get up close and personal with the koalas. One of the koalas was hilarious. It tried to steal my camera. I think it wanted to take a selfie! There was also a koala couple having a snuggle! It was so cute! Also on the day Currumbin Wildlife Sanctuary gave a show about some animal for the kids. Some of the animals we met were Barking Owls, Tawny Frogmouths, Stick Insects, Eastern Blue Tounge Lizards, Coastal carpet Pythons and Galah's. I had a great day and it made my day when I got to talk with and get a photo with Dr John.

Recently my entry "Palm Oil Problems" won first prize in the Griffith University Science Competition in the Environmental Action Project section. This science competition has students from all different schools from the Gold Coast competing. I did this project to educate the public about palm oil production and its effects on the environment. In my project I talked about how pristine rainforest especially in Indonesia are being cut down and demolished to create Palm Oil plantations. This has a devastating effect on the environment. The problem is that Palm oil is used for so many products and people aren't aware of it. For my project I created a website, powerpoint and documentary video. If you would like to see it please visit http://palmoilproblems.weebly.comThank You For Reading

The Jardine River Painted Turtle has not been seen since 1989 and was thought to be extinct ! When some Cape York rangers and Scientists from Origin energy were doing a remote training exercise they trapped 24 of these turtles in the last 2 weeks but released them in the end. They believe the next thing to do is to put tracking devices on them to see where they are going.

Their biggest threat is feral pigs. They are thinking about fencing the feral pigs off in the wet season. The Jardine River Painted Turtle were about to be put on the Endangered species list. As they get older their tummy scales get pinker. I think this is the most beautiful turtle species ever! They live in Queensland's Cape York Peninsula. They can get to the size of an adults palm. These turtles are sacred to at least one Aboriginal group.